US EditionLAUSD, Teachers Union Reach Tentative Labor Deal Including Higher Starting Pay, Salary Scales
The deal raises salary scales 11.65% and lifts starting teacher pay to about $77,000, but separate talks continue with other unions.
- On Sunday, April 12, the Los Angeles Unified School District reached a tentative two-year contract with United Teachers Los Angeles, potentially averting a massive strike set for Tuesday.
- Three unions representing roughly 70,000 employees had threatened a joint walkout, which would have shuttered the nation's second-largest school system serving about 400,000 students.
- Under the deal, beginning teacher salaries rise to $77,000 annually while members receive an 11.65% salary scale increase; UTLA leadership recommends ratification as a "historic win."
- SEIU Local 99 and the Associated Administrators of Los Angeles remain at the bargaining table, as the three-union solidarity pact leaves the Tuesday strike threat active.
- District officials are working through the weekend to reach additional agreements and avoid campus disruptions on Tuesday, April 14; if talks fail, remaining unions could honor picket lines across 1,302 campuses.
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Two unions agree to new contracts with LAUSD - Los Angeles Wave Newspaper Group
Wave Wire Services LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Unified School District continued to meet April 14 with Service Employees International Union Local 99 — Education Workers United in hopes of reaching an agreement that would avert a strike on April 15 and keep campuses open for hundreds of thousands of students, after reaching tentative agreements with two other unions. The Los Angeles Unified School District reached a tentative agreement April 1…
Los Angeles teachers reach deal for a raise but could still strike
LOS ANGELES — Students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, or LAUSD, are one step closer to being assured they can still go to school for the rest of the week. The school district has reached a deal with the two unions ahead of a potential strike, including the teachers’ union. The crisis is not quite over, because that deal doesn’t necessarily mean those teachers will remain in the classroom. Another union is still at odds with the scho…
LAUSD and the UTLA union come to a labor agreement that benefits teachers; there are talks with two more unions to avoid a strike this Tuesday
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